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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

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Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 On the one hand, you can’t really afford to hire salespeople because your CLTVs don’t justify it. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. But it’s not the full story.

Scale 162
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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

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And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales. And as an entrepreneur, I do consider myself in sales and I believe sales is a noble profession.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

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So, it’s like our sales pipeline, it needs to be five to 10 years. Brand is … The last thing you want to do in the early days is hire a marketer that just wants to work on your brand and then you realize they were right, like MailChimp has this brand and when does that work? Did you have any sales people two years ago?

Scale 157